Chapter Nine: What the Freak?
The wind rustled in the trees, red and yellow leaves fluttering to the ground in lazy circles. Autumn had set in, and Halloween was fast approaching, with students looking forward to the Hogsmeade visit that was planned for the last weekend before Halloween. A few students, however, were far from cheery.
James had spent a couple days after the 'Incident', as he mentally referred to it, throwing himself into organizing Quidditch practices, and thinking up new strategies to be put to use this season. His detentions with Lily were carried out in stubborn and unpleasant silence as they spent hour after hour doing Filch's bidding, ranging from the standard trophy cleaning to the dreary organization of files for various teachers. Lily, for her part, had thrown herself with unprecedented ferocity into her schoolwork, and was spending a lot of time outside with Sierra and Carina while the weather was holding up. Both James and Lily refrained from mentioning the Incident to each other or anyone else, causing some people to believe that their spat had blown over. But the harsh coldness they exuded whenever they were near each other served as a sufficient reminder. They avoided each other like the plague, until they were forced together because of their detention, silently indifferent, but burning up inside at the injustice of it all. Why them? Why two weeks? Why Filch? The questions were un-answerable and their friends put up with quite a bit, as both Lily and James vented, annoyed at each other but too cautious to show it. For now, at least.
The mood of the Tuesday on which their final detention took place was melancholy, as the first truly cold drafts of the year had come upon them. More than one student had been administered a pepper-up potion by Madame Pomfrey Sr., and the fact that Lily had been one of them didn't improve her mood greatly. It was even more trying to see James walking everywhere, laughing boisterously, as if being sick was some sort of foreign myth. All in all, that Tuesday was not a good one, and the situation was not helped by James's meeting with Johnny just hours before his detention with our darling Lilykins.
James had been informed in no uncertain terms that he owed Johnny a favor, as he had been the one to bring the truth out in the open, however, since he, Johnny, was kind and magnanimous, James would not have to repay him. Their talk culminated in James being given a signed autograph to give Lily, with the advice to 'go get her tiger'. James wasn't pleased. He proceeded to inform Johnny that he didn't care if Lily fell off the ends of the earth (Johnny interrupted: 'The world doesn't have an end, James! It goes all the way around!), and that he was not going to go 'get her', tiger or otherwise. Johnny, slightly taken aback, went away, tickled pink to be on the frontlines of the continued Fight and went off to inform everybody in the vicinity that James was in denial.
Lily, for her part, was sniffling miserably down the hallway towards her detention, when she read the note on McGonagall's door; their detention was to take place in the dungeons. Lily's joy knew no bounds. Traipsing down, Lily was consumed in self-pity, when she came upon Johnny telling everyone that James was in denial about his apparent ardor for her. This was too much. Lily had been having a horrid day thus far, with her constant sniffles, cold weather, and somewhat horrible performance in Transfiguration. In Defense, the teacher had been struck with lightening, and in his burst of inspiration brought the divination teacher in for a lecture. The Divination teacher had determined that Lily would die at precisely 5:47 that evening.
Lily wasn't dead yet.
Germy had seen the need to bring in the Venomous Tentacula, so that the sixth years might be informed of its teething habits; apparently, venomous tentacula are attracted to all things shiny in this stage, and Lily's hair and bracelet were shiny enough. She had trudged down to the hospital wing, clutching fragments of her chewed off hair, lamenting about the state of society and its plants in general. She had not been having a good day, and to hear that James was in denial of his feelings for was the icing on the cake.
Johnny was greeted with bellows, screams, angry declarations and death threats before he was charmed silent, and was forced to go find someone willing to restore his vocal skills. When he had regained them, he had the nerve to saunter up to her and demand why she felt the need to yell at people so, and that a few nights of rest in the Hospital Wing might cure her of this nasty, and altogether unattractive, habit. He was charmed silent (again) before he could continue, and it took him quite a while to find somebody else to perform the countercharm.
By the time Lily made it down to the dungeons, she was far from happy.
"You are LATE!" Lily jumped in shock, as Filch thrust his face as close to her as possible, and proceeded to deafen her. "I do not tolerate latelyness Evans."
James was leaning against a wall, grinning in an infuriating manner as the bitter caretaker chewed her out.
"Mr. Filch, it is 7:02 right now," explained Lily, trying to reason with an altogether unreasonable man.
"Exactly!" he bellowed. "Evans, tell me what time your detention is supposed to start?"
"Uh…seven o'clock?"
"Exactly!" he bellowed once more, feeling like he had made his point. "You are two minutes late." Spit was flying.
Lily began to grow angrier. Had she not been through enough today, let alone the past two weeks? On their first day, Filch had taken to outlining their two weeks with immense satisfaction, enjoying the looks on their faces as he took them step-by-step to the inner circles of hell. And now he was wasting a lot more than two minutes, yelling about her 'latelyness'. Lily refrained from pointing that 'latelyness' was not a word. James, however, had no problem in doing so.
"Ah, Mr. Filch …" he said, raising a finger lazily.
Filch turned, aggravated beyond belief at having his tirade interrupted. "WHAT?"
"'Latelyness'"-here James added air quotes for emphasis-"is not a word."
Lily stared at him in shock. Filch looked like he wanted decapitate something, preferably him. "Are you trying to say something, Mr. Potter?"
Lily couldn't help herself. "I believe he just did."
Filch stared at the two of them in incredulously, his narrowed eyes swiveling from one to the other. "Excuse me?"
James spoke up this time. "She said that I had already said something, because you asked if I had, indeed, said something, after I said the something as to which you are now inquiring about."
"What?"
James shook his head in mock regret. "Argus, Argus, Argus, we really should try to keep up, shouldn't we? No matter, Evans and I will gladly run through the scenario for those of us who are a bit slow," –here he gave 'Argus' a pointed look-"again. Now, Lily had just walked in, all of two minutes late, where I, acting as you, yell in an unbecoming manner about when detention was supposed to start, etc, etc, etc. You however, are butchering the English language in a most heinous manner, and I feel the need to preserve the sanctity of said language, and therefore, correct you. You are in shock, and ask if I have indeed said what I have just said. Lily says that I have and you, looking quite like a beached whale, ask again. I point out that I have already said what I have just said. And here we are now. Do you understand?" he asked sweetly, as if his chief goal in life was to clear things up for the irate caretaker.
Filch muttered something about the sass and disrespect he was being forced to endure, and that Dumbledore would not sleep another night until he heard of the aforementioned sass and disrespect. He glared at both James, and a shocked but amused Lily, and told them in no uncertain terms that this dungeon was supposed to be cleaned from top to bottom and he didn't give a damm if it took them the entire night to do so. "I want to be able to see my reflection in this floor, do you understand?"
James muttered something about earthquakes, before nodding. The earthquake statement seemed to fly over Filch's head, while Lily had to work hard to turn her snort of laughter into a cough. Just as Filch was about to leave, he turned around and said, "Oh, and when I mean clean the dungeon, I mean you have to empty and clean out all this." Giving them a malevolent grin, he swung open a cupboard to show the horrified pair various body parts as well as small animals that were kept pickled in grimy jars. "I want all this disposed off, and the jars need to be scrubbed out. I wasn't going to make you do this, but that one over there just couldn't help himself, could he?" he added, extending a stubby finger at James. "Oh, and no magic." He chuckled to himself, obscenely happy, before making his exit.
Lily had been determined not to say a word to her less-than-happy acquaintance for the rest of the evening, but the sight of those jars pushed her over the edge. "Potter, I cannot believe you. Because of you and your anal antics we are being forced to touch pickled body parts. I, for one, refuse to come near those things with a fifty-foot barge pole."
James, not at all pleased to have the entire blame put on his head, devilishly handsome, and roguishly windswept as it was, was quick to respond. "Evans, you are hardly ten feet away from those jars. Being a bit melodramatic aren't we? God, why is it such a drama with girls? 'Eww, I can't touch that. It. Is. Gross. God forbid, I break a nail'."
Lily looked at him viciously before turning to the bucket on the floor. "No bloody magic, damned un-fucking-believable, bloody snotrag-" Lily abruptly took the sponge she had been using to attack the floor, and threw it in a perfectly aimed shot at James's head.
James, having looked up when Lily first swore, found his sarcastic 'Congratulations, Evans, you do have a backbone!' cut of by a sponge that had no intention of stopping. He dropped speedily to the floor, but, unfortunately, the floor was wet, and so it was that James found himself speeding headlong into a large collection of pickled organs and appendages. "Ahhhhhhhhhh!"
Lily, quite pleased with the course her projectile had taken, burst into laughter, as James stood up, covered in various anonymous substances, a furious look on his face. He stalked towards her in what he hoped was a formidable and fear inspiring manner, but was disappointed when she only laughed harder. "I. Am. Covered. In. Stuff." His voice rose an octave as his hands flew expressively into the air, "What is wrong with you, Evans? No, don't bother to answer; I don't have all day to listen to the no doubt extensive list." He noticed a pickled …thing on the floor and pointing at it, started to yell. "I mean what the freak is that? Is that a human heart? A bladder? A kidney? A lung? Wait, if it's a lung, should there not be two of them? Don't they come in pairs? Aren't they, like…together? Is it legal to separate them?" James leapt onto a chair, "Omigod! Omigod! It smells! It bloody reeks, do I smell like that? Do I really smell like that? Oh my god, I have B.O." Lily had stopped laughing to stare at him as he continued his feminine antics, "Damn it, I smell, and my hair! It's plastered to my head, what would my mum say if she saw me like this? My beautiful hair, it's all greasy! Like Snape, omigod, do I have Snape-esque hair? Is my nose all deformed now? Is it…pointy? Am I Snape-esque?" James picked one of the jars up and urgently looked at his reflection, before dropping it, "What the freak is that? And my hair!" James's hand reached up in an attempt to put his hair to rights, "Oh, my god, my fingers! They smell grotesque! My fingers have B.O., is there such a thing as F.O.?" He reached down, presumably to wipe his precious fingers on his robes, "Oh no, my robes! Evans, do you have one those girly potions you girls use?"
"Er…you mean perfume?"
"Yes!" James shrieked happily, "Yes! Do you have some?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"I don't carry perfume to detention." Lily spoke slowly, as though he was a small child, which he may well have been, considering his 'F.O.'.
"Why not? You're a girl, aren't you?" James fluttered his hands around in consternation.
"What's the matter Potter?" She paused delicately and gave a pointed look towards his hands. "Break a nail?"
James, having deemed the floor safe to stand on, jumped off of his chair onto the floor and turned to face her. "This. Is. All. Your. Fault."
"Potter, it is not my fault you look like a deformed Snape-esque chipmunk." Lily couldn't help throwing his worst fear back at him.
James almost lunged at her, before stopping to remind himself that she was girl, and he did not beat them up. He breathed through his nose slowly, once and then twice. "Are you always this stupid, or is today a special occasion Evans?"
"Excuse me?"
"You heard it. I want an apology right now."
Lily looked at him coolly. "I'm sorry you look like a deformed Snape-esque chipmunk."
"Excuse me?"
"You heard it," replied Lily, her voice rising higher then usual in an effort to mock him.
"Evans, calling you stupid would be an insult to stupid people. I want an apology, now!" James wasn't playing around anymore and Lily had thrown her sponge down to face him when she had heard the stupid comment.
"I am not apologizing. What do I have to apologize for?"
"Other than your obnoxious presence, the fact that you single-handedly pushed me into that cupboard is something to apologize for." James looked at her coldly and tried to cross his arms, before letting them fall to the side as he looked at them in revulsion. James was covered in slime from head to foot and it would take him years in the shower and millions of bottles of cologne to get the smell to go away. It would be fair to say that he was quite pissed.
"Technically Potter, I just threw a sponge at you. Is it my fault that you are so goddamn clumsy?"
"The floor was wet!"
"And who was wiping the floor?" asked Lily, immensely pleased with her response. She bent back down and resumed wiping the floor.
Smack.
James, in a fit of pique, had thrown his sodden sponge across the room hitting Lily on the back of the head. Stunned, Lily turned around to face him.
Smack.
Dripping wet and smelling of something she didn't care to identify, Lily wiped the front of her face, James's second sponge falling to the floor.
"Oops, must have slipped," remarked James, gazing at her in scorn. "After all, I am clumsy!"
"You little-" Lily grabbed the sponges and flung them back at him with all her might. She was beyond anger and her vision was none too clear. Red spots seemed to be dancing in front of her eyes, and she couldn't seem to control herself anymore.
James, shocked at her reaction, managed a small grin at her fiery state. This was more like it. He dodged one of her sponges, but the other one hit him squarely on the crotch. He winced slightly, and looked down at the now wet…area. Because of his preoccupation he missed her third assault, taking two sponges, one after the other, in the face.
They spent the next half hour hurling sponges, mops, brooms, and other miscellaneous cleaning supplies at each other. Several buckets of water were filled, and by the time they stopped for a rest, they were both drenched. Unidentifiable sludge covered James's glasses, and Lily was paying for the fact that she had again chosen to wear a white t-shirt. She looked down at herself, swore sharply and wrapped her arms around herself with a squelch.
James looked up at her, wiping his glasses off on his robes and grinned once more. She really should have known better then to wear white when they were dealing with cleaning supplies and lots of water. Lily's red tank top was showing clearly through her soaked t-shirt and the caption made James laugh out loud. "'Why ride a broom when you can ride a Quidditch player?'," he read aloud, snickering.
Lily's face flamed. "Sierra gave it to me as a joke Christmas present last year, ok?" she demanded, testily. "I wasn't planning on getting wet!"
"S'ok Evans, its good to have it all out in the open. Now, which Quidditch player have you been riding recently, or is there more than one?"
Lily gasped out loud, before blushing inadvertently. She couldn't believe he had made such a derogatory remark. "We all aren't whores like you Potter," she snapped.
His face went slack at her comment. Was Lily Evans using such words now? "What the hell do you mean?"
"Shagged anyone in a broom cupboard lately?" asked Lily snidely, stepping aside smoothly as he flung a bucket at her head.
And they were off.
Half an hour later, the dungeon was messier that in had ever been. Filch chose this opportune moment to check on them.
"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?"
"Er…" James and Lily looked at each other blankly, before putting down their ammunition, "…we're cleaning."
"CLEANING?" Filch looked apoplectic.
Lily and James winced before glancing around to survey their surroundings. The mess James had made with the jars was still there, with slime oozing on the floor and several…parts…were flung about in a haphazard manner. The floor was slippery, with puddles of water collecting at random spots and cleaning supplies were spread throughout the room. In short, it looked like an earthquake and a hurricane had hit simultaneously, with Lily and James being the lone survivors.
"Yes…?" tried Lily in a vain attempt to smooth things over. "See, James and I decided to spread water all over the floor and we were just going to mop it all up when you walked in." James, in his haste to agree with this highly ludicrous story, nodded vehemently.
"Well, you missed quite a few spots," spat Filch. "If Dumbledore wasn't so soft, I would take the two of you and string you up by your toes. Then I would proceed to pull out each of your toe nails, one by one." He glared menacingly at the two of them.
"You would need a pretty tall ladder for that," remarked James.
Lily looked at him in astonishment. What was wrong with this boy? Did he have a death wish?
"What do you mean, Potter?" asked Filch, slightly diverted from the tirade that was sure to come.
"Well, if you are going to string us up by our toes and then remove our toe nails, you'll have to reach our toe nails first, and for that, you'll need a ladder," James explained.
Filch shook his head. He didn't even WANT to understand. "All I know is that I come in here and instead of a clean room, all I see uncleanliness! Do you here me? UN-CLEAN-LI-NESS!"
"Mr. Filch?"
"Yes, Ms. Evans?"
"Uncleanliness is a word that means lack of cleanly habits; it is not used to describe an area, hence your statement that all you see is 'uncleanliness' is grammatically incorrect."
James and Lily had pleasure of seeing the vein in his forehead bulge, "Oh, really, Ms. Evans? Well, despite that, I still see a part of this room which is very unclean…other than you two."
"What part?" James asked. He had thoroughly enjoyed himself watching Lily rile the cantankerous caretaker, and felt it was only fair he got his turn.
"The ceiling! The CEIL-ING!"
"What?" This time, James was just confused.
"You missed a big spot, kids, a big spot. I still see uncleanliness on the ceiling!"
Lily was too bewildered to correct him this time. "How are we supposed to reach, let alone clean the ceiling, without magic?"
"That is hardly my problem. I want an un-uncleanliness ceiling when I come back, do you hear me?"
James winced in preparation, hoping he wouldn't begin shouting again. "We hear you alright," he muttered, glowering at Filch.
Filch shot them both thoroughly disgusted looks before walking out.
Lily looked hopelessly up at ceiling. It looked pretty clean to her - except for all the nasty spots and the occasional green blob here there. So a couple potions had probably exploded and stained the ceiling. Was that such a big deal? Who actually looked up and noticed any of it?
"You realize that this is all your fault?" demanded James. "Now if I was going to be utterly childish I would throw you at the ceiling, but we can't exactly do that can we? Although, it didn't stop you from pushing me into that cupboard," he muttered under his breath.
"Shut up, Potter. I don't have time for your idiocy at the moment. Do you mind? I have to come up with plan that solves the problem of cleaning the ceiling without magic."
"Oh, and I can't come up with a plan? Are you saying I'm useless?"
"Uh, yes," said Lily, nodding vigorously to confirm her words. She abruptly stopped nodding and turned to face him, all traces of a scowl long gone. "James…."
"What?" he asked, unnerved by the flirty tone of voice.
"See… I have this idea. We could push benches together and stack them, and then, one of us could climb up and clean the ceiling! Brilliant, isn't it?"
"Brilliant? Do you want to die?"
"Don't be silly," Lily laughed, albeit hysterically, to show that his idea was utterly ridiculous. "Nobody is going to die. Maybe, be maimed a little, but I'm sure Madam Pomfrey can deal with that…"
"When you say 'one of us' is going to climb up, you mean yourself right?"
"James, Jamsie-poo, James laddie, of course I don't mean me. I mean, you're taller than I am, so it makes sense that you would climb up there." Lily's jaw was starting to hurt from her insincere and continuous grinning. She dropped her voice, and muttered breathily, "Plus, you have all those manly…muscles," she added for effect.
James jumped as if he had been scalded and slapped Lily's hand away from his abs. "Stop being so creepy. God, I'll do it, just go back to being your annoying banshee-like self, ok? But if I'm going up there, you have to be standing right under me, so that if I fall, you can catch me."
Lily looked at him askance, all pretense of niceness, melting away. "Catching you? More like being squashed by you. You're so freakin' tall, with all those bloody muscles!"
"I thought my height and muscular build was a good thing?"
"I was obviously lying, you loser!"
"Well, if you aren't going to stand under me, then I'm not going up there, and we will be strung up by our toes when Filch comes back to rant about 'uncleanliness'." It was now past ten o'clock, and James was beyond tired. It had been a very long day.
Lily's lips twitched slightly at the thought of Filch and his 'Uncleanliness Rant' before sighing morosely and nodding. "Fine, I'll stand under you, but we better start pushing those benches together."
They worked in silence for fifteen minutes, with Lily pushing the benches and James stacking them on top of each other. When they had made a sufficiently tall stack, James looked up at the teetering pile, and gulped audibly. He turned urgently to Lily, "If I die, you get nothing, nothing you hear me? NO-THING!"
"Gee, thanks, Potter," replied Lily, sarcastically. "Now get your arse up there!"
This presented a bit of a problem. The benches were stacked close to the wall, but not exactly against it, so James was a bit anxious about dieing an early death, imagining falling off and being buried by them. However, with Lily's help, and the wall for support, he managed to make it to the top, and Lily climbed up a little way after him to hand him cleaning supplies.
"Remember to stand right under me, got it?" yelled James, his voice echoing in the cavernous room.
"Yea, yea," Lily called back, rolling her eyes. She watched him religiously as he moved like a toddler, slowly beginning to gain confidence. A couple minutes passed, and since Lily could see that he was managing quite well up there, she grabbed a mop and began cleaning the floor.
"Evans!"
"What, Potter?" she asked irritably, without turning around.
"EVANS!"
"What?" she asked again, still not facing him.
"EV-ANS!"
Lily turned and screamed bloody murder as she saw James coming towards her, his arms flailing wildly, as he tried to slow himself down. She tripped on an uneven tile in her haste to get out from under him, and hit the floor hard, instinctively rolling away from where he would land.
James had never been more terrified in his life. He had been cleaning when he felt his feet slip, unexpectedly, causing him to plummet to the floor, while screaming the entire time. He tried to slow himself down, and put his arms out in front of him to break his fall. He fell with a loud 'humph!' and rolled, landing on top of Lily.
"Oof!" Lily cried. Her yell of pain was cut off, when James rolled onto her. Nevertheless, she could see the pain on his face, and asked, "Are you ok?"
He didn't reply for a few minutes; if Lily couldn't have heard his ragged breathing, she would have been sure he was dead. He was almost crushing her with his weight, when he moved slightly, allowing her to breath. When she was sure he was alive, she said, "What the hell were you doing up there?"
This seemed to jolt James back to life, because he finally opened his eyes and muttered. "Dancing the bloody salsa! What the hell do you think I was doing?"
Lily was about to reply, but was slightly disconcerted by the distance between them, or lack thereof. He was still more or less on top of her, his face mere inches from hers, and she could actually see the gold flecks in his chocolate brown eyes, that so many girls had swooned over. ("He has the most gorgeous eyes, ever! I mean, there are literally gold flecks in them! Sooo cute!") Those eyes were throwing her off as she struggled to come up with a sufficiently crushing retort.
As Lily and James silently tried to recover from their fall, Professor McGonagall decided to stop by and check on them. She was pleased that there had been no more trouble in detention, and was about to congratulate them on their more mature behavior when she saw the scene before her. The entire dungeon was a mess, and beside a stack of benches that were inexplicably piled to the ceiling, she saw James lying on top of Lily. Before she could make her presence known, she heard Lily's voice.
"What the hell is wrong with you Potter?"
"What's wrong with me? This was your idea! You wanted to do this!"
"It was my idea, but you weren't supposed to roll on top of me!"
"Oh really? And how do you suggest we do it? You're the one who wanted me on top!"
"You know what, Potter? You are obviously inept at this, and we are not going to get anywhere if you are going to take the lead. So this time, I'll go up there, ok?" Lily was annoyed beyond belief, not to mention bruised all over, and decided that she would climb up and clean the ceiling.
"Be my guest, I'd like to see you do it any better."
"Oh, you will," Lily cried, pushing him off.
"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?" cried Professor McGonagall, shocked beyond belief. What were her students doing?
"Professor McGonagall!" cried Lily, jumping up, and eliciting a cry of pain from James as she rolled out from under him. "Are you ok?" she asked again, extending a hand to help him up.
James shook his head, pain clouding his features once more. "I think my wrist is broken, and I definitely dislocated a shoulder-"
"YOU BROKE HIS WRIST!"
James opened his eyes to meet Lily's concerned ones, and before he could think about what her concern meant to him, the Professor had rushed over to them. "This is highly inappropriate behavior! Highly inappropriate!"
"What do you mean?" asked Lily, confusion evident on her face. "We were just cleaning the ceiling…"
"'Cleaning the ceiling'? Is that what it's called these days?"
"What's called 'cleaning the ceiling' these days?" James asked inquisitively.
McGonagall's face colored, and she cast around for a way to say what she meant, without actually having to say it. "This," she said, waving her arms to encompass the two of them, "all of this! You know…"
They quite obviously didn't know and gave her encouraging looks to continue further.
"You know…canoodling!" the Professor cried, finally giving in.
Lily and James both cried out in disgust and rushed to explain the situation.
"Filch made us clean the ceiling!"
"He said he's string us up by our toes if we didn't!"
"We're telling the truth, we swear!"
"That's why the benches are piled up. James was on top of them, cleaning the ceiling and then he fell down!"
McGonagall looked highly skeptical, but seeing the very real hurt on James's face, decided that it didn't really matter at the moment.
"Mr. Potter, I think you need to get to the Hospital Wing immediately – and you too, Ms. Evans. God knows what trauma you two have suffered. But since you didn't finish your assigned task today, you'll have to come back tomorrow and clean up the dungeon, is that clear?"
They both nodded, and with Professor McGonagall helping James, the trio walked out, slamming the dungeon door behind them.
A loud crash ensued, and Lily hurried back to see what had happened. She opened the door once more and saw their carefully stacked benches lying in a pile on the floor.
She rushed back to the waiting pair. "The benches fell down. Do we have to clean that up tomorrow, as well? This all your fault, Potter!"
"My fault? This was ALL YOUR IDEA!"
McGonagall sighed wearily, before casting a silencing charm on the bickering pair, leaving them to glare silently at each other.
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